The Pirate Bay is set to start promoting musicians and other artists on its homepage

As reported by Torrent Freak, The Pirate Bay, the world’s favourite file sharing site, has a new opportunity for musicians, film makers, cartoonists, comedians and others to promote new music on their network.

In a move to improve its promotional features, where the TPB highlights political issues and other links, it is now looking to promote acts that the team behind the site likes.

So, indie bands and the like may end up on the front page, not only attracting attention to their work but also showing a little about the tastes of those who run the site. The requirements are listed for The Pirate Bay Promotional Apparatus and it appears that artists can submit an image, link and a few lines of description.

With millions of users worldwide, this form of promotion is not to be sniffed at, but according to the current description, TPB will choose things it likes now and then. So you’d better hope that it likes you and that your site can withstand that many users coming to visit.

With the recent shift to Magnet links from Torrents on site, The Pirate Bay is starting the new year with some fresh new approaches. Could it be a sign that something even bigger is coming to sail its choppy seas?